I suppose background should go in some where so the travels of The Angry Anglo and Wife makes some sort of sense.  2014 was the years of down sizing, in as far as we shipped a 5 ton truck of Asian antiques to the auction house and put our 1840s Charleston single on the market.  Antiques sold but not the house! So the move to a smaller house after retirement in order to be more mobile was stymied.  Still not sure why the house didn’t sell as nobody bitched about the price!  Anyway plan B came into being – can’t sell – lets rent.  Naturally the renting went like greased lightning and we had to pack-up and get out in two weeks, which after living in our great old house for 10 years was not a trivial exercise to say the least.  Having lived and worked around the world for 35 years packing and moving was nothing new, but time does dull the memories!  Two days of chaos with our trying to stop the packers from stuffing everything they could get their hands on into boxes, despite labels and instructions not to pack, that was it. We then moved in with our good friends Scott and BB in Mt Pleasant to decompress and work out how the hell we were going to get everything into our Pathfinder and hit the road.  After a few evenings drinking Pain Killers, Manhattans, and Margaritas (not all in the same evening) and discussing what was absolutely vital to take with us such as cases of wine and booze, kitchen basics and knives (well, I like to cook) plus some clothes, we had it vaguely organised. Not sure how Ann survived the trauma of selecting what she wanted for the road from two large closets, but it appears to have happened. In many way we are happy to leave Charleston as the town has changed drastically over the past few years. Cruise ships and a huge rise in touroids has made downtown crowded, and unbridled development is just adding to this mess. Makes me angry to see such a beautiful and unique town spoilt by greed. But then leaving our friends and neighbours makes me sad. When you move it’s always the people you miss most!

Next stop Birmingham, AL to bond with Bill and Beth, Ann’s sister and husband Bill.  Going to be tough as Bill is a bourbon drinker!